Item Description: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Hollywood, 1924. Paper. Original Photograph. Superb original portrait of Lillian Gish taken by the well known photographer Charles Albin. He and Gish had a friendship and a long working partnership, and he went with her to Italy for the filming of Romola and took a series of photographs there. This being one of his portraits of Gish that was used for publicity. Albin had a short but very intereresting life including near death and accusations of murder. His name is printed in the still. The film also featured Dorothy Gish, Ronald Colman and William Powell with direction by Henry King. Caption attached to the verso, and 2 old tape mends to two corners on the verso. Fine. Bookseller Inventory # 009893

Item Description: Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1863. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Romola" by George Eliot. Published by Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1863. First edition. Three 12mo volumes. Half-bound in calf over green cloth covered boards by Bayntun Binders of Bath, England.With raised bands to the spine ends, decorated with gilt. The top fore-edges of all three volumes gilt and with marbled endpapers and paste-downs. The volumes are in very good plus to near fine antiquarian condition. The leather is extremely well preserved with bright gilt embellishments. Minor foxing to the fore-edge of the textblocks as well as the preliminary and terminal pages of each volume. The pages of text are largely clean and bright, with sound binding. A beautiful addition to any personal library. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (D2-31). Bookseller Inventory # 000753

Item Description: London - Smith, Elder and Co, 1863. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition of Romola by mary Anne Evans under her pen name, George Eliot. Complete in three volumes. Bound by Bemrose of Derby, with a binder's stamp to each front pastedown. With an ink inscription to the title page of volume I, 'To my dear wife, 1st May 1865'. Romola (186263) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view. It first appeared in fourteen parts published in Cornhill Magazine from July 1862 (vol. 6, no. 31) to August 1863 (vol. 8, no. 44). The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history. Condition: In half calf bindings with cloth covered boards. Externally, sound with slight shelfwear and loss to one leather spine label. Internally, firmly bound. No advertisement page to volume II. Bright with the odd spot and an ink mark to verso of one title page, offset to facing page. Overall: VERY GOOD. Bookseller Inventory # 027953

Item Description: Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1863. Half Calf Leather Binding. Book Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. dark blue half calf binding; 5 raised bands; lettering and designs in gilt on spines within the compartments; blue marbled boards; hinges are tight; spines are square; a.e.g.; brown marbled end papers; no previous owners' signatures, inscriptions or other internal markings; no foxing; no browning; [iv] 336, [iv] 333, and [iv] 292; Note: Sadleir states 336 pp in Vol.2 but Jardynce research in its bibliographical catalogue confirmed that that total included the following ads; the Jardynce 11 points are present in this set confirming it's an 1863 first and not an 1863 2nd ed.; bound as was common without half titles and ads; spines have sunned to a warm brown; minor edge wear rubbing; a handsome three decker. Sadleir 817; Wolff 2061. Size: 12mo. Bookseller Inventory # 300720

Item Description: Smith, Elder, & Co, London., 1880. First edition thus: illustrated by Sir Frederick Leighton. Quarto. Two volumes: pp xii, 396; xii, 403. Original binding of tan buckram with title labels on spines. Number 43 of 1000 copies. Pages unopened. The artist is nowadays best known as Lord Leighton, even though his elevation to the peerage lasted a single day coming as it did the day before his death.Tipped onto the verso of the frontispiece of the first volume is a short Autograph Note Signed by Leighton: about 50 words on his Holland Park Road writing paper and dated Nov. 1887 concerning an address to the Royal Academy of which he was President at the time.Spines darkened. Title labels a bit rubbed and marked. A very good set. Bookseller Inventory # ELIOTGEO022343

Item Description: Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Ann] ROMOLA. London:Smith, Elder, 1863. 3 vols. First edition,unrecorded remainder binding. Original terra cottacloth, gilt. The front free end paper excised fromeach volume, each volume slightly cocked, else alightly rubbed bright set in an interestingbinding (RH cloth, honey-comb pattern, withelaborate blindstamping on the covers). The spinestamping suggests the general style of a laterbinder's cloth for a circulating library, butthere are no markings. The end papers arewaste-sheets taken from a magazine published bySmith, Elder, and the cloth type and heavy coverstamping are characteristic of publisher'sremainders. This would appear to be a salvagebinding. Carter does not describe this binding,nor do Baker & Ross, or any Eliot bibliographers.The printing was 2,288 copies. Baker & Ross A7.2.Wolff 2061. Sadleir 817. Bookseller Inventory # 8715

Item Description: William Blackwood, Edinburgh & London. 3/4 Leather & Paper Bds. Book Condition: Near Fine. Unknown. Period binding of 3/4 brown calf over brown marbled paper bds with contrasting green marbled end papers and gilt titles on the spine. A unique example of this classic book rebound with real photographs mounted on stiff card stock interspersed with the text pages. These photos are hand- titled in pen by the (assumed) individual who had this bound. His name and date in pen (Curtis T. Perry Paris, Oct. 10, 1879) appear on the top right-hand corner of the title page and the script matches that of the photo titles. The book contains pps 1-252 and 35 photo plates which I assume have to do with the areas mentioned in the book as it looks like many of these match places and buildings in corresponding chapters. Volume I only of an apparent 2 volume custom bound set. Undated by the publisher but likely from the 1878 edition published 2 years prior to her death in 1880. Quite attractive as well as unique! Size: 12mo - 7-3/4" Tall (Large). Bookseller Inventory # 018494

Item Description: Leipzig: Berhard Tauchnitz, 1863. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the Tauchnitz edition in the same year as the Smith Elder British and the Harper American first editions. Two volumes bound in cream vellum with gilt titling and decoration in gilt, red and blue, including gilt decorated blue Morocco label-like panels at head and foot of boards and spine. Covers somewhat darkened and rubbed here and there; a damp-edge mark on one spine - would probably clean up with care, but still charismatic, strong, sound binding with gilt and grey-green printed foliate design on the endpapers. All edges red-dyed.The feature of this "de-luxe" edition is some 50 contemporary photographs each mounted on card, mostly of historic scenes in Florence (Firenze). These are numbered and must be from the stock of a photographer working for the tourist market. A nice item. Bookseller Inventory # 6450

Item Description: Harper and Brothers, 1863. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. The first American edition, published by Harper and Brothers in 1863. Bound in original green cloth. Illustrated. An attractive copy with little of the typical rubbing to the boards. Near fine, with bumping to corners, and the previous owners signature. Bookseller Inventory # 001537

Item Description: American News Co., New York. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. Unstated - Possible First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. GOOD to VERY GOOD book condition/NO dust jacket. Circa 1890. Possible First Thus edition. Light green cloth hard cover with black decoration on front & spine. Light green title in black decorative box on front & light green title in gilt box on spine. PEOPLES EDITION -- very rare!!! It says 'Illustrated' on the front cover, but I saw no illustrations. Previous owner private library plate on front paste down. Previous owner name & date on 2nd ffep dated Mar. 29 '93. Mild corner, edge & spine end rubs & dent. Page edges heavily age tanned. Pages age tanned. Age/shelf soil to front & back & edges of cover. Hinges are intact & the only place that the spine has been cracked is at page 126/127. Decorative end papers. Made into a movie in Sweden in the 1920's starring Lillian Gish, William Powell & Ronald Coleman. Plot summary from the internet: "In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a beautiful daughter named Romola. Tito flirts with a peasant girl in the streets, and for fun goes through a mock marriage with her -- but she takes it seriously. Romola doesn't really love him, but marries him because her father wishes it." This historical novel is not a light read & features Macchiavelli and Savanarola among it characters. 407 pp. Pages are tight & unmarked. Occasional shelf corner crease. Picture is provided by the seller & is of actual book you will receive. Bookseller Inventory # 002764

Item Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863., 1863. 250, 2, 4, illustrated. Tall 8vo. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First American edition. . With neat signature of former owner Theodore Romeisler on front free endpaper and with his book label on front pastedown. With publisher's advertisements at end. Wear at head and tail of spine; some spotting to front board else quite a good copy. Bookseller Inventory # 264